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H. J. MARK & W. F. MARTINEK.

Bottle Wrapper.

No..230,710. Patehted Aug. 3,1880.

WITNESSES N. PETERS, PHOTO UNITED STATES ATE OFFICEQ HENRY J. MARK ANDWILLIAM F. MARTINEK, OF- ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BOTTLE-WRAPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,710, dated August3, 1880.

. Application filed J anuary 6, 1880.

To all whom at may concern Be it known that we, HENRY JOSEPH MARK andWILLIAM FRANCIS MARTINEK, of thecity and county of St. Louis, and Stateof Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Bottle- Wrapper; and wedohereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact descriptionof the same, reference being had to the accompan yin g drawings, formingpart ofthis specification, in which Figure l is a side view of twobottles packed in a box with our wrapper, and witha portion of thewrapper broken away to show the space between the glass surfaces of thebottles when thus packed. Fig. 2 is a view of a single bottle andpackage, showing, in dotted lines, how the corrugations of one wrappercross the corrugations of the next adjacent one to give double the spacebetween the bottles, instead of allowing the corrugations or grooves tomesh the one into the other.

Our invention relates to a novel wrapper for packing bottles, glass,queensware, and other kindred material, designed to prevent the samefrom breaking when packed for storage or transportation.

The invention consists in a jacket composed of a thin tube or cylinderof veneer, pasteboard, or other similar material, having diagonal orspirally-arranged corrugations or grooves, as hereinafter fullydescribed.

In the drawings, A represents a bottle provided with one ofourim provedwrappers,which consists of a tube or cylinder, B, of veneer, pasteboard,or other analogous material, havin g spiral or diagonal grooves orcorrugations.

When the bottles or other articles are packed in close adjacent positionthe inclination of the grooves or corrugations on one bottle is reverseto the inclination of the grooves or corrugations on the other, and asthe grooves or corrugations thus cross each other, as shown in dottedlines, Fig. 2, the bottles are always really separated by a distanceequal to twice the height of the grooves or corrugations, (see Fig. 1,)thus affording between the bottles double the elasticity which thesingle grooves or corrugations of any one wrapper present. For thisreason we have called our invention a duplex elastic and diagonally-grooved wrapper.

In modifying our invention we may, instead of the simple corrugations orcontinuous grooves, employ a spiral series of separate butclosely-spaced indentations, punctures, or perforations.

Any article packed with our wrapper is easily put into barrels or boxes,sliding in, no matter how it may be caught, and they are easily madetight, but will not stick like wrappers with corrugated belts, strings,or longitudinal corrugations, but go in and come out easily and fittightly, always making a safe package.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new is- A wrapperor jacket for bottles and analogous articles having spiral ordiagonally-arranged grooves or corrugations, substantially as and forthe purpose described.

HENRY JOSEPH MARK. WILLIAM FRANCIS MARTINEK.

' Witnesses:

A. M. BERRY, J 0s. F. BAIER.

